Arnold Lodge Prepcare Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager values the contributions that parents and staff make to effectively evaluate the quality of the provision. For example, she seeks support and guidance from other early years practitioners to help identify aspects of the nursery to extend further. • The well-qualified and knowledgeable staff team supports children's learning and development successfully.

Each child benefits from a consistent key person who knows them well. Staff liaise effectively with each other to ensure that children's learning and care needs continue to be well supported in their key person's absence. Children form close bonds with staff and are happy.

• Staff supp...ort children's communication and language development skilfully. Babies listen attentively and respond with interest to songs. Older children use expressive language and confidently communicate their ideas.

Children who are bilingual benefit from opportunities to hear and use their different languages as they play. • Children make good progress. They gain a wide range of useful skills that provide them with a secure foundation for their future learning and school.

They are motivated to play, explore and to make new discoveries. • The manager has not identified where some aspects of staff practice can be enhanced even further to raise the quality of teaching and learning to the highest level. • Staff do not consider how to make the best use of the outdoor provision in order to support children's learning as fully as possible.